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Cardapio is a menu for GNOME that can work as a panel, AWN or Cairo Dock applet and even as a stand-alone application.

Besides being able to launch and search applications, Cardapio can also:

pin applications for quicker access

perform searches on your computer (file or full-text search) and even Google, Wikipedia or YouTube

integrate with VirtualBox (so you can launch VMs straight from the menu), Tomboy, Ubuntu Software Center and Pidgin

display recent documents with the help of Zeitgeist and more.

much more

To keep Cardapio up to date with recent GNOME changes, a GNOME Shell extension has been released. The extension displays Cardapio next to the Activities button:

The icon can be turned off if you don't like it (but it can't be customized yet) and the "Menu" text can be changed to anything you want. Also, Cardapio uses Super + Space as the default keyboard shortcut but you can change it from its options.

Install Cardapio GNOME Shell extension in Ubuntu

To install Cardapio GNOME Shell extension in Ubuntu, use the commands below: